Michel Beauchamp
Canadiens' fan since 1958
That does not answer the question...Tim Peel has been to be over the top when it comes to calling penalties and from what I read on here he seems to be the most hated ref.
That does not answer the question...Tim Peel has been to be over the top when it comes to calling penalties and from what I read on here he seems to be the most hated ref.
You can score a goal without the puck going in the net.
Or any penalty impeding a breakaway on an empty net that would be a penalty shot is an automatic goal
Are you referring to the rule when a player throws his stick while there's a breakaway on an empty net? / I think there's also a rule for that if a goalie voluntarily dislodges the net on a breakaway
It happens atleast once a game.
Originally there was really no forward passing in hockey though, but that rule predates the NHL.
"No forward passing" meant that one was actually allowed to pass forward, but the receiver himself wasn't allowed to be ahead of the carrier when the latter passed the puck. You had to stay "on your own side of the puck" at all times or else you were offside.
Yes, this is a pretty common occurrence and rule.Once a game, there is a scrum in the offensive zone which the offensive defensemen participate and the draw goes out of the zone as a result?
I must not pay attention, because I always thought they just put it back in the O-zone lol Never realized that they put it back outside the zone BECAUSE A D WENT IN THE SCRUM
not so obscure, but I have to explain this to my ball hockey league at least 10 times a season when it happens:
A stoppage in play from a high stick is called when the puck is touched above the shoulders, but a goal is disallowed from a high stick when the puck is touched above the crossbar.
Horrible rule.One that I like to point out to friends when we attend games is that an offensive zone draw can be moved to the neutral zone if the attacking defensemen were to join a post-whistle scrum. To a non-hockey fan, it can be a strange visual to see a scrum happen around the net and then the two attacking D are just hanging out by the blue line instead of joining in. I want to say at some point, I overheard a fan who was unaware of the rule assume that the defensemen were simply too scared to get in a fight.
It allows for an unfair advantage where someone could be double teamed. And then punishes the team sticking up for each other with moving the draw outside the zone. Considering there are never scrums anymore they should get rid of this rule and the instigatorWhy is that?
It allows for an unfair advantage where someone could be double teamed. And then punishes the team sticking up for each other with moving the draw outside the zone. Considering there are never scrums anymore they should get rid of this rule and the instigator
In 1931-32, the NHL instituted a rule stating that each team was allowed only one goaltender on the ice at one time.
It's like they anticipated Patrick Roy becoming an NHL coach 82 years later.
Sounds like soccer (or real football for the Europeans on the forum)
That's the intention of the rule. If a player knows that he's going to be outnumbered, he's less likely to start shit. Without the rule there would be a major scrum every time the goalie covered a puck.It allows for an unfair advantage where someone could be double teamed. And then punishes the team sticking up for each other with moving the draw outside the zone. Considering there are never scrums anymore they should get rid of this rule and the instigator
Still sounds like an advantage for the defensive team. Should consider making it an auto minor if done in the d zone.I always thought hand passes being legal in the defensive zone was interesting. It’s more accurate to say that they’re not illegal. The point of the rule isn’t to allow hand passes, it’s to disallow pressured teams from getting a cheap whistle by committing a hand pass.
A bit unrelated. What worked great between Roy and François Allaire is that Patrick liked to stop the puck on the ice and Allaire had a similar approach to goalies, to try something different.Long story short: I thought that there was a rule forbidding goalies to go on their knees before Patrick Roy popularized the butterfly style, but I stumbled upon an old rule that stated that goalies had to serve their own penalties.
While searching, I also learned that if a team opted for an extra attacker (by pulling the goalie) in OT, they would be awarded a regulation loss in the scenario that the opposing team scored an empty netter.
What are some other obscure NHL rules that most people are not aware of?
I don't know how that occured. San Jose was an expansion team. I don't know how this works. Some team had 1st overall and some haven't. OTT with Daigle 1st, TBL with Hamrlik 1st. I think Nashville got "only" a 2nd overall, picking Legwand. Vegas didn't have the 1st overall pick but we can't say they were a deprived team neither... so what about Seattle? Possibly like Vegas but it's been confusing with new teams coming into the league and which pick they get on their first draft.Quebec getting the 1st overall instead of San Jose.
I guess the rational is the ability to hand pass is less of an advantage than the ability to get a quick whistle almost at will. Also means that the play where a goalie covers and quickly scoots the puck to a teammate with his trapper doesn’t result in a stoppage.Still sounds like an advantage for the defensive team. Should consider making it an auto minor if done in the d zone.